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v ' ' , v . * A . . / secsktion Sambfrg feralii PAs'?0 >2 $2.00 Per Year in Advance BAMBERG, S. C., TETJRSD/iY, BE3-MBEE25,1919. Established in 1891 ; __ "l===== ttT | CHILD LABOR IS REDUCED Omhn of Mora Than 40 Par Crat UndtrNewhaw ???????????^?1 Child labpr has decreased more than 40 per .cent since the child labor tax provision of the revenue act went into | effect April 25 last. Chls act levied a tax of 10 per cent on the net earnings Of plants employing children under 14 years or between 4.4 and 16 for more than eight hours In the production of commodities entering into interstate commerce. Reports of internal revenue bureau agents, it is announced, indicate that V' the greatest decrease has occurred in the cotton mill industry of the southern states where, it is said more than 85 per cent of the mills now are operating on a basis that exempts them from the tax. Marked reductftUp in child labor also was reported, it was aald, in the coal mining and canning Industries. Many plants, particularly cotton mills, have discharged all chil? M dren under 16 years of age, the report said, rather than adjust the operation to an eight-hour day. FINE "GRIDIRON" AT COBLENZ American Soldiers Stationed ThdfS Have Facilities for Almost Every Kind of Sport. iA/; \ Blaborate preparations were made at I OoWenz, Germany, for the football sea on. Grounds and stadiums which were only partly finished a year ago have been made permanent playing fields, and many of them compare favorably '* * " ui I- .L. witn tne oest coiiege gnmrvua iu uuo United States. The most elaborately finished ground Is In Coblenz, known as "Carnival Island." It was on this ground that the Third army championships were decided last season, but the ground at v that time was not In as good condition as It Is today. Neither were there proper facilities, such as dressing rooms. At this island there are now two regnlar baseball fields, two football fields, a golf course of nine holes, a polo ground, a quarter-mile cinder track, with 220 yard straightaway, and outdoor basketball courts. On another part is a ring for horse shows and nine tennis conrts. Suitable bleachers to accommodate " 5,000 spectators have been built and there also are a large number of properly equipped dressing rooms with showers, rubbing tables and store .rooms. >>| - f Not only at Coblenz are there grounds available for the soldiers, but at Andernach, Montabaur, and NeuWied the old grounds left by the A. E. r. have been taken over by the Y. M. C. A. and enlarged and remade in every particular. j|| PROBABLY THOUGHT A LOT But Really, Under the Circumstances, There Was Nothing the ActorManager Could Say. The late Oscar Hammerstein, who had a genius for advertising his theatrical enterprises, used to tell a story /V. about an English actor-manager's at/ - tempt to follow his example. "My conferee," Mr. Hammerstein would say, "was having a new thea' ter built In London. Casting about for some good way to advertise it he decided that an admirable scheme would be to have the workmen while excavating for the foundation come across Roman antiquities. So he stole down to the operation at dead of night and deposited a number of costly, genuine Roman antiquities just below the surface of the spot being excavated. "The next morning he arrived in haste to hear the news of the great find and report it to the journals. Seeing that the men had already dug well below his hidden treasure, he said: " Good morning, foreman. Anything Interesting this morning?* 44 'No. sir, not a thing, sir,' the foreman answered. The actor-manager looked at the bulging pockets of the workmen and said nothing. What could ne sayr' Scaw Fell Pike. / Scaw Fell Pike, Cumberland*? mountain summit, Is to be the property of Englishmen In perpetuity. The highest hill of England is the very noble gift made by Lord Leconfleld to the men of Cumbria who fought In * tiie war, and as a token of gratitude to those who gave their lives for the cause of the world's liberty. Truly ft gift in the spirit of Ruskin and one which causes the Manchester GuardIan to utter deepest appreciation?a gift It says, through which "even we common people may get a momentary entry into the ecstasies of the poets and see the earth and everything In It mystically appareled with 'the glory and the freshness of a dream.'" Scaw Fell Pike has the venerable distinction ^ of being among the most ancient mountains of Europe, outdistancing the Alps In point of years. * llijl^BHBwsPgB^^ffi^^ 1 l JTS "The Night before Christmas, when a creature is stirring?not even a mouse;" J But Old Santa Claus listens, as common sense bids, {?- ^ wLr While he chuckles and whispers?"Some wide-awake kids!" \ - s % i . ? J HINTS FOR THE I I POULTRY GROWER - - | " 1 i r 11 ? Tuberculosis and internal worms j bring about greater losses to the pouL | try industry than any other causey ! according to H. D. Munroe, extension I poultry specialist of the Ohio State | University. Unsanitary conditions am j largely responsible. These may be improved by rotation in the chicken runs. Soil about permanent houses may be plowed and cultivated crop* raised. Portable colony houses may . i be used for growing chickens. The legs of chickens suffering from worms become paralyzed. Although the fowls eat heartily they become emaciated. No cure is known for the worms; prevention is the only remedy Birds suffering with tuberculosis be* come emaciated and are often lame iq the left leg. The most reliable evidence of tuberculosis may be obtained from a post-mortem examination. White spots varying in size froiq a pinhead to a pea may be found throughout the liver and spleen. White lumps of turbercles varying in size from a pea to that of a hen's egg may be found on the intestines and body walls. The lungs are rarely found to be infected. The spleen is frequently 1 | the first part affected. ! False Interpretations of Providence and Wonders . | We are guilty of false interpretations of providence and wonders when% we either make those to be miracles that are none, or when we put a false sense upon those that are real; when we make general events to have a private aspect, or particular accidents to have some universal signification. Though both these may seem at first ta . have the strictest appearance of religion, yet they are the greatest usur- k . ! pations of the secrets of the Almighty and unpardonable presumptions on his 1 high prerogatives of punishment and roworH ?1ThAmnc Snrnfr |18 ^ WORDS OF WISDOM I * 1 y : >' M Real courtesy is not a mere outside polish, a mask assumed * , for a purpose, but is a product, a manifestation of the true feelings of the human heart. The great thing is not to be discouraged by seeming reverse or relapse. The victory is to endurance, and there would be no endurance if we were always gaining. Fear to spend what we have, nobly and on fit subjects, is a mean kind of thing, but fear to squander and to waste is wholesome and righteous. Economy is not miserliness, and there is ' a grandeur about moderation which is wanting in excess. Poverty must be a crime?at least, it is punishable by hard II lnhnr. 11 I ii ART THOU THE SAME? i; -^2 Art thou the same, thou sobbing winter wind? -;.t| The same that rocked the cradle of the May, That whispered through the leaves of summer noon. And swelled the anthem of the fullgrown year? Art thou the same, thou piteous, moaning thing, Beating against the pane with ghostly < hands, Wailing in agony across the wasteArt thou the same?the same? ^ Art thou the same, thy poor , heart bruised and faint, Treading thy way along through twilight gloom? Art thou the same that sang to greet the dawn, Caroling in the sunlight like a bird. Too glad for speech, too glad for aught but song? Art thou the same that prayest but for night, For night to come and ease thee of thy pain? Art thou the same?the same? ?i+1%a+ woflnaf fVvAflffltl XUUU wxntcx vrxxxu iuai> ttWivuk huvw?w the night, Thou broken heart too crushed to moaa or cry, There will be rest even for ye, poor thing, And more than rest?a Joy new washed in tears; For through the portals of the fading year I Lie sunny hills and fields fresh-clad liL green, | And after night who knows what day may bring? I And ye unchanged, the same?the same? ?Frances Dorr (Swift) TatnalL Declares Superman on Moon. According to Prof. William H. Pickering of Harvard, who recently madea study of the moon from an observa-; tory in Kingston, Jamaica, there are. evidences of the existence of a race of superior beings on the moon. Professor Pickering asserts a careful study reveals vegetation in spots on' the moon's surface. .yf"'